Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 79 54
Rank change year-on-year -38 -25 -9
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,312 1,592 3,523
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.76% 3.63% 4.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 3.88% 4.78%
Number of salaries quoted 874 1,045 2,783
10th Percentile £52,400 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £74,870 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% +10.92% -13.62%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £86,250
90th Percentile £119,250 £113,979 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £68,783 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.86% +5.82% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 57,986 41,016 73,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.95% 93.54% 87.33%
Number of salaries quoted 35,213 22,402 55,977
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,911 £44,967 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,997 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 15 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -28 1,196 £77,500 +3.33% 485
London +6 660 £87,500 - 206
Work from Home -21 581 £72,500 +0.71% 362
UK excluding London -98 546 £67,500 -1.86% 342
North of England -44 247 £67,500 -3.57% 117
North West -31 119 £67,500 -1.82% 56
South East -101 102 £75,000 +11.11% 96
Yorkshire -34 99 £70,000 -2.77% 33
South West -59 63 £65,000 -7.48% 33
Midlands -59 58 £67,500 +3.85% 44
East of England -8 38 £65,000 +13.04% 18
West Midlands -16 34 £65,000 -7.14% 24
Scotland -78 30 £60,000 -20.00% 21
North East 0 29 £65,000 +23.81% 29
East Midlands -64 23 £67,500 +3.85% 20
Wales -13 7 £55,200 +17.02% 15
Northern Ireland -33 5 £62,500 +4.17% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 28 (2.13%) Apache Spark
2 21 (1.60%) Apache
3 20 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (1.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 18 (1.37%) Confluence
5 14 (1.07%) OpenStack
6 13 (0.99%) JBoss
7 11 (0.84%) WebSphere
8 10 (0.76%) CMS
9 8 (0.61%) IIS
10 6 (0.46%) Appian
11 5 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.30%) Camunda
12 4 (0.30%) nginx
13 3 (0.23%) GeoServer
13 3 (0.23%) Liferay
13 3 (0.23%) NServiceBus
13 3 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.15%) SharePoint
15 1 (0.076%) Umbraco
Applications
1 15 (1.14%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.84%) Maya
2 11 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.30%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 11 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (0.61%) Endur
3 6 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.23%) SAP FS
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.15%) Shopify
7 1 (0.076%) Actimize
7 1 (0.076%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.076%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.076%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.076%) Quorum
7 1 (0.076%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.076%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 721 (54.95%) AWS
2 590 (44.97%) Azure
3 291 (22.18%) GCP
4 231 (17.61%) Serverless
5 171 (13.03%) SaaS
6 118 (8.99%) GitHub
7 108 (8.23%) Amazon S3
8 101 (7.70%) AWS Lambda
9 100 (7.62%) Azure DevOps
10 97 (7.39%) Amazon EKS
11 69 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 64 (4.88%) Amazon SQS
13 61 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
14 49 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
15 48 (3.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 47 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
17 46 (3.51%) OpenShift
18 43 (3.28%) PaaS
19 37 (2.82%) Azure Service Bus
20 32 (2.44%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 42 (3.20%) Broadband
2 12 (0.91%) HTTP
3 9 (0.69%) AMQP
4 7 (0.53%) Internet
5 6 (0.46%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (0.46%) Firewall
5 6 (0.46%) Network Security
6 5 (0.38%) MQTT
7 4 (0.30%) DHCP
7 4 (0.30%) DNS
7 4 (0.30%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.30%) SNMP
7 4 (0.30%) WAN
8 3 (0.23%) Modbus
8 3 (0.23%) Multicast
8 3 (0.23%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
9 2 (0.15%) LTE
9 2 (0.15%) SSL
10 1 (0.076%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (14.10%) NoSQL
2 176 (13.41%) PostgreSQL
3 129 (9.83%) MongoDB
4 122 (9.30%) SQL Server
5 74 (5.64%) MySQL
6 65 (4.95%) Relational Database
7 64 (4.88%) DynamoDB
8 50 (3.81%) Elasticsearch
9 39 (2.97%) Redis
10 29 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
11 28 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
11 28 (2.13%) Big Data
11 28 (2.13%) BigQuery
12 23 (1.75%) RDBMS
13 17 (1.30%) Power BI
14 13 (0.99%) DB2
14 13 (0.99%) Pinecone
15 12 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (0.91%) Tableau
16 11 (0.84%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 171 (13.03%) Git
2 123 (9.38%) Jenkins
3 82 (6.25%) GitLab
4 53 (4.04%) TeamCity
5 45 (3.43%) JIRA
6 39 (2.97%) Cucumber
6 39 (2.97%) JUnit
7 33 (2.52%) Selenium
8 30 (2.29%) Cypress.io
9 27 (2.06%) CircleCI
10 22 (1.68%) Mockito
11 20 (1.52%) Bitbucket
12 19 (1.45%) Maven
13 13 (0.99%) JMeter
14 11 (0.84%) Oracle Forms
14 11 (0.84%) Postman
14 11 (0.84%) Vite
15 8 (0.61%) Claude Code
15 8 (0.61%) REST Assured
16 7 (0.53%) git-flow
General
1 393 (29.95%) Finance
2 379 (28.89%) Social Skills
3 164 (12.50%) Banking
4 107 (8.16%) Law
5 100 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
6 86 (6.55%) Public Sector
7 74 (5.64%) Retail
8 66 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 58 (4.42%) Financial Institution
10 52 (3.96%) Telecoms
11 44 (3.35%) Back Office
12 25 (1.91%) Games
13 24 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
14 22 (1.68%) Billing
14 22 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (1.30%) Advertising
15 17 (1.30%) Legal
16 14 (1.07%) Marketing
17 12 (0.91%) Front Office
18 11 (0.84%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 445 (33.92%) Developer
2 345 (26.30%) Senior
3 257 (19.59%) Software Engineer
4 213 (16.23%) Architect
5 167 (12.73%) Lead
6 121 (9.22%) Senior Developer
7 114 (8.69%) Full-Stack Developer
8 112 (8.54%) Java Developer
9 102 (7.77%) Solutions Architect
10 90 (6.86%) Senior Software Engineer
11 84 (6.40%) Java Engineer
12 77 (5.87%) .NET Developer
13 52 (3.96%) Software Developer
14 49 (3.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 48 (3.66%) Java Software Engineer
15 48 (3.66%) Lead Developer
16 40 (3.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 40 (3.05%) Principal Engineer
16 40 (3.05%) Senior Java Developer
17 37 (2.82%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 301 (22.94%) .NET
2 294 (22.41%) React
3 264 (20.12%) RESTful
4 229 (17.45%) Spring
5 211 (16.08%) REST
6 202 (15.40%) Spring Boot
7 187 (14.25%) Node.js
8 182 (13.87%) Kafka
9 113 (8.61%) AngularJS
10 102 (7.77%) .NET Core
11 82 (6.25%) gRPC
12 75 (5.72%) HTML
13 69 (5.26%) .NET Framework
14 63 (4.80%) CSS
15 61 (4.65%) RabbitMQ
16 58 (4.42%) ASP.NET
17 57 (4.34%) Middleware
18 52 (3.96%) Django
19 50 (3.81%) Hibernate
20 46 (3.51%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 380 (28.96%) Cloud Native
2 221 (16.84%) Distributed Systems
3 110 (8.38%) Enterprise Software
4 109 (8.31%) Product Ownership
5 58 (4.42%) Greenfield Project
6 49 (3.73%) Legacy Systems
7 38 (2.90%) Data Structures
8 36 (2.74%) Over-the-Top Content
8 36 (2.74%) Video\Live Streaming
9 33 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
10 32 (2.44%) Algorithms
11 26 (1.98%) AI Agents
11 26 (1.98%) Virtual Team
12 25 (1.91%) Blockchain
13 24 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
14 20 (1.52%) Mobile App
15 17 (1.30%) IoT
15 17 (1.30%) Management Information System
16 15 (1.14%) Public Cloud
17 13 (0.99%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 56 (4.27%) Linux
2 21 (1.60%) Windows
3 18 (1.37%) Android
4 9 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.46%) Unix
6 5 (0.38%) CentOS
6 5 (0.38%) Debian
6 5 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.15%) VMS
8 1 (0.076%) Fedora
8 1 (0.076%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 640 (48.78%) CI/CD
2 559 (42.61%) Agile
3 521 (39.71%) DevOps
4 501 (38.19%) Software Engineering
5 372 (28.35%) Containerisation
6 307 (23.40%) Full-Stack Development
7 287 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
8 277 (21.11%) Mentoring
9 260 (19.82%) Event-Driven
10 241 (18.37%) AI
11 240 (18.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 239 (18.22%) Test Automation
13 206 (15.70%) Computer Science
14 176 (13.41%) Infrastructure as Code
15 163 (12.42%) Scrum
16 160 (12.20%) Technical Leadership
17 156 (11.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 152 (11.59%) Clean Code
19 149 (11.36%) TDD
20 146 (11.13%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 448 (34.15%) Java
2 346 (26.37%) Python
3 280 (21.34%) SQL
4 260 (19.82%) JavaScript
5 257 (19.59%) C#
6 217 (16.54%) TypeScript
7 111 (8.46%) Go
8 42 (3.20%) Scala
9 40 (3.05%) PHP
10 31 (2.36%) Bash
11 30 (2.29%) C++
12 27 (2.06%) C
13 25 (1.91%) Ruby
14 22 (1.68%) Kotlin
14 22 (1.68%) PL/SQL
15 19 (1.45%) Shell Script
16 16 (1.22%) Rust
17 13 (0.99%) PowerShell
18 7 (0.53%) Bicep
19 6 (0.46%) R
Qualifications
1 210 (16.01%) Degree
2 139 (10.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 107 (8.16%) Security Cleared
4 73 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 63 (4.80%) AWS Certification
6 50 (3.81%) Master's Degree
7 42 (3.20%) Azure Certification
8 37 (2.82%) TOGAF Certification
9 35 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 30 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (1.30%) DV Cleared
12 14 (1.07%) CISSP
13 12 (0.91%) AWS Certified Developer
14 10 (0.76%) CISM
15 9 (0.69%) PMI Certification
15 9 (0.69%) PMP
16 8 (0.61%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.46%) ISTQB
17 6 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 5 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (6.02%) QA
2 29 (2.21%) GDPR
2 29 (2.21%) PCI DSS
3 27 (2.06%) Accessibility
4 20 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (0.91%) NIST
5 12 (0.91%) SOC 2
6 10 (0.76%) NCSC
7 7 (0.53%) EMIR
8 6 (0.46%) GRC
9 5 (0.38%) IFRS
9 5 (0.38%) SLA
10 3 (0.23%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.23%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.23%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.23%) SEPA
10 3 (0.23%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 406 (30.95%) Docker
2 15 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.38%) Firmware
4 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 405 (30.87%) Kubernetes
2 224 (17.07%) Terraform
3 85 (6.48%) Grafana
4 65 (4.95%) Ansible
5 35 (2.67%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.91%) Kibana
7 14 (1.07%) Argo
8 11 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.69%) HP Fortify
10 6 (0.46%) Puppet
11 4 (0.30%) Cilium
11 4 (0.30%) Istio
12 3 (0.23%) Nagios
12 3 (0.23%) Rancher
13 2 (0.15%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.076%) MIIS
14 1 (0.076%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 140 (10.67%) Microsoft
2 53 (4.04%) Google
3 51 (3.89%) Oracle
4 36 (2.74%) Typelevel
5 18 (1.37%) Salesforce
5 18 (1.37%) SAP
6 17 (1.30%) Red Hat
7 16 (1.22%) OpenAI
8 14 (1.07%) Software AG
8 14 (1.07%) Splunk
9 13 (0.99%) Dynatrace
10 12 (0.91%) CrowdStrike
11 11 (0.84%) Atlassian
11 11 (0.84%) BiZZdesign
11 11 (0.84%) MuleSoft
11 11 (0.84%) Palo Alto
12 10 (0.76%) Cisco
12 10 (0.76%) Databricks
12 10 (0.76%) IBM
13 9 (0.69%) Guidewire